Absolutely psyched to be working on a series of rugs made in collaboration with our artist Greg MacLaughlin and the Gibbon Group. Tretford rugs epitomize all that is cool in the custom rug world. Created using the finest quality goats hair, the color texture and weave of the material is absolutely stunning, lending itself toward sharp geometric designs. Greg MacLaughlin's sharp eye for simplicity and design has paired perfectly with the brand and we are very excited to be offering this cutting edge product to the market place. Launching in April, the rugs will be available in a range of color palettes and combinations, meaning that the designs can be tailored to suit your style and decor. It's an interior designers paradise and we cannot wait to see them on your floors!! This is just one of 5 designs coming soon!

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We have been working with Silverstone Developments to create a custom feature artwork for the facade of their latest residential developments on Brunswick Street in New Farm. Our large scale commercial art piece draws inspiration from the local environment and features a Queensland Fig by local artist Gert Geyer. The artwork is almost fully up on the wall and we are thrilled to see the finished product. Now the facade will be rendered, lighting added and the piece will light up Brunswick Street. Huge thanks to our artist Gert Geyer for the fantastic concept and piece! [caption id="attachment_14222" align="aligncenter" width="960"] One more panel to go!![/caption]

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TWFINEART recently teamed with local artist Gert Geyer when asked by architect Tobias Benz to create a cutting edge artwork for a new residential development in Brisbane. It is a monster (1.5 stories high) and was created using local flora as inspiration. While we can't reveal images of the piece, we can say that we visited the factory today and witnessed how the state of the art piece is being produced. Technology is amazing. Now we have  the opportunity to create one off works like this in sensational detail without the exorbitant prices of the past. Rather than choose off the shelf designs, architects and developers now have the opportunity to commission real work by real artists in a one off manner that gives their design a true signature, and even more importantly brings beautiful art into our streets and dwellings. A little sneak peek at some behind the scenes images: [caption id="attachment_13630" align="aligncenter" width="700"] First Continuous Cut[/caption] [caption id="attachment_13631" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Polishing the sections before treatment[/caption] [caption id="attachment_13632" align="aligncenter" width="700"] A beautiful pile of aluminum confetti piled up from the vacuums.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_13633" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Gert Geyer standing in between her creation.[/caption]

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This week we release a series of limited edition prints from a collaboration with the fantastic artist Nicolas Jorcino.

Nicolas Jorcino is a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, who has lived and worked in Louisville, KY since 2001. While attending architectural school in his hometown, Jorcino was introduced to painting during weekly sessions at a local master's workshop. He quickly began conducting his own experiments, which led him to become a full time muralist for the next eighteen years. Today his work is still informed by some of the same problems, pursuits and processes of architecture and design; as a social and physical science and also as a fine art. About his work in this exhibit, Nicolas writes, “My formal training is in architecture and urban planning. I began this series of paintings a few years ago while exploring different aspects and similarities between these two disciplines and painting. Identifying light as the primary material of architecture, I looked for a way to present it with the same weight and hierarchy as the concrete structures that control and shape it in the works of some of the masters I admire... In these images, the process is revealed more as an intellectual exercise than a physical execution.”

Nicolas is currently exhibiting at the Carnegie Center for Art & History in Kentucky with another TWFineArt artist and favorite, Rebecca Norton. The is exhibition titled In Between and runs until October 11, 2014.

To see our limited edition print series visit our SHOP.

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The Codex Coner is one of the most beautiful surviving architectural manuals from the Renaissance. Created around 1510, the illustrated manual was complied in Rome and documents historical and contemporary Roman architecture by the likes of Bramante (1444--1514), Raphael (1483--1520), and Michelangelo (1475--1564). The scope of it's contents and information are unmatched and can be attributed to draftsman & Florentine carpenter: Bernardo della Volpaia (c.1475--1521). The manual was discovered by Michael Goldberg during his time in Italy and influenced a major body of his work from the late 1970's until the mid-late 1980's. 'Codex Coner Piede Vicentino' by Michael Goldberg 1980 [pictured below left] references the fundamental structures of Roman architecture, the divisional lines appearing as abstracted columns supporting the uneven weight of the pink colorfield. The technique Goldberg used to create these works on handmade paper was particularly fresh. Matt medium was applied to the paper with water to create a wet surface that Goldberg would draw into with lecturers chalk - a material that the artist would find an affinity with and subsequently use in paintings for the remainder of his career. Renowned collectors Herb and Dorothy Vogel found particular interest in this work and acquired several drawings for their collection. 'Codex Coner Piede Vicentino' was donated to  Yale University as a part of the Vogel's 50 x 50 - 50 Works for 50 States, after Dorothy's passing in 2012. We are thrilled to work with the Goldberg Estate to include 2 of these amazing and historically important works in our limited edition print collection. Visit our SHOP to see the available work, or enquire with the gallery about sales of the original works.

   

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